Reposted by ali alkhatibKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 13hTbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping 131836291
Reposted by ali alkhatibKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14hA truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system 11464641224
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 15hshutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83505673
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 15hwas horrified reading about the gang rape of the cornell victim, and somehow it manages to get worse as people are apparently doxxing her now. 0162
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 26/09/2026attending this event with @tega.bsky.social and pretty excitedmoha.wikiTega Brain Artist Talk - The Museum of Human Achievement 000
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 25/09/2026hey, at 3p ET we're going to discuss The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com one last time the last chapter in particular is worth reading if you just want to drop in today; it got me thinking a lot about imagination (citing @ruha9.bsky.social) and building an ambitious, inclusive future (w/o billionaires) 1161
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 25/09/2026did someone write about how conspicuous and annoying it is that every tech intervention is like basically a chatbot these days? did i imagine that? 3487
Reposted by ali alkhatibjustine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul... 411237
Reposted by ali alkhatibYpsilanti District Library @ypsilibrary.org · 23/09/2026Free flu and COVID vaccines at YDL-Whittaker start tomorrow! Walk-ins welcome. 📅 Thurs, Sept 24 | 4–8:30pm 📅 Tues, Sept 29 | 10am–1pm 📅 Sat, Oct 3 | 10am–2pm On Sept 24 and Oct 3, onWHARD will also be here with free anemia screenings, period kits, and health resources. 02012
Reposted by ali alkhatibto wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I firmly believe that we (queer ppl and especially trans ppl) should never talk to the press about intra-community conflicts. I can’t see any way that it can benefit us, and it’s obvious how it can hurt us. 21047214
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 23/09/2026i keep seeing posts about zeynep tufecki and something or other about AI putting cancer researchers out of work or something, and like... did i miss something? 110
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 22/09/2026if you're looking for an appropriate number to donate, given my age, i'm 1000 years old today. 1100
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 22/09/2026Today is my birthday. If you can donate to The Sameer Project, I would really really appreciate it. Thanks!thesameerproject.orgThe Sameer Project – Palestinian-led mutual aid group working towards liberation 62213
Reposted by ali alkhatibAlex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Who should I talk to in Detroit about Public Safety organizing? 184
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 21/09/2026we don't give enough credit to the editors when the title is really good. 1314
Reposted by ali alkhatibJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...404media.coIs Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too. 7746434
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 21/09/2026i read a lot more about the FAA thing than i wanted to and i'm not sure they're doing any machine learning with this AI air traffic control thing. like forget about generative AI, transformers, neural nets, etc... the one-pager could be a (somewhat) fluffed up description of basic inferential stats. 3162
Reposted by ali alkhatibRyan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 21/09/2026et voilà, a portrait of Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock, rendered from leaked Flock license plate camera images. Plates were redacted before rendering. 6416150
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20/09/2026@listifications.app is good, but pretty quickly i learned the patterns of the sorts of people who block me, and then it just became somewhat psychologically damaging, like a faucet with a leak that you hear dripping some nights 020
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20/09/2026this is kinda funny because i remember being curious about this a while ago and recall reading about entomologists' studies speculating about whether insects feel *discomfort* (avoiding the term "pain"), so to see this rhetorical/logical creeping further and further into nonsense is very interesting 3120
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20/09/2026can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a different analytical framework go for it; stop whining and produce one. or champion an existing one! 61047
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 19/09/2026what if i just deleted all of my email drafts without looking at a single one of them? i don't even know how they accumulate; it's not "intentionally". i'm willing to bet they're all stale requests that have become completely irrelevant. but how much am i willing to bet... 1102
Reposted by ali alkhatibPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 349160714111
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 18/09/2026today and next week we're discussing The Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com (today is ch 5+6, next week is 7+8) as it happens, the timing is "good"; ch 6 discusses peter thiel's fear-mongering about future apocalypse and shit about AI annihilating humanity or whatever bullshit feel free to join at 3p ET:al2.inRedirecting… 2224
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 18/09/2026neat (and messy lol holy crap)youtu.beThis LG G6 OLED Glass Belongs to Me! It’s not spying on me anymore. YouTube video by tfm55x 041
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 18/09/2026"i told it to role play as someone i could've emailed but didn't, and i said to not hallucinate a bunch of times" 0101
Reposted by ali alkhatibKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026Is there any way we could ever get journalists to stop "interviewing" chatbots? Or is it just systematically impossible 5637
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17/09/2026as usual excellent reporting by @hurwitz.bsky.social and addresses Israel's use of AI to target and kill Palestiniansmotherjones.comKiller AI is already here—we’re using it in IranDespite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres. 1105
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17/09/2026for balance, one is a zionist and one is opposed to apartheid 1121
Reposted by ali alkhatibAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Apparently Nate Silver read our book and he's clutching his pearls because we talk positively about the Luddites. I, on the other hand, have read neither of his books. Which has proved to be a good decision because the man apparently can't read. 542131
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17/09/2026i'm sorry, i'm overwhelmed by the idea of buying a jensen huang nvidia sweater, let alone being caught dead wearing one untold, previously only theoretical levels of loser shit. 3799
Reposted by ali alkhatibMicah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...ddosecrets.orgFlock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of SecretsFilesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo... 181551568
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 15/09/2026this episode is really really really interesting, and (almost uncannily) prescient timing for me right now 132
Reposted by ali alkhatibKai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I went on the Turbulence Pod with Dylan Saba. We're talking about what we can learn from data center populism, my incessant attempts to periodize climate politics in the 2010s, and my favorite Lefebvre quote. turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-40...turbulencepod.substack.comEpisode 40: Counter-Space and the Data Center Revolt w/ Kai BosworthWith Kai Bosworth 0137
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 15/09/2026listening to the @deathpanel.bsky.social episode finally and i'm honestly so mad at everyone right now. reacting to the fascist clip farmers and even the people who claim to have watched/listened to the whole session and either didn't understand or completely avoided beatrice's def of health fascism 1211
Reposted by ali alkhatibCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com 8433631201
Reposted by ali alkhatibPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Go learn how to do POLITICAL POWER ANALYSIS before you speak again. 411912
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 13/09/2026reminds me of something mohammed el-kurd wrote in "perfect victims". i don't have a copy on me but he wrote something along the lines of how it's absurd to judge the oppressed for expressing a wish backed up by nothing, especially next to oppressors' wishes which are backed up by states and violence 031066
Reposted by ali alkhatibArtie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026safe to say @deathpanel.bsky.social has breached containment 96412
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 12/09/2026looks as if the ai prompter thought that heaven for charlie kirk is when 9 men run a train on him, and then ayn rand i guess? and then an endless train of men again. 3142
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 12/09/2026does anyone remember an essay about the faux sophistication of tescreal/ai safety nonsense? like specifically the arbitrary speculation and nonsensical discussions about stats/probabilities 3141
Reposted by ali alkhatibjustine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 09/09/2026interesting that the ready-at-hand political actions available to this framing of dangerous superintelligent AI are "pacing agreements between US labs" and not "build collective power to undermine the capital strike" 2161
